time for another ebook?

My recent ebook sale has actually been the most profitable site/product i’ve ever sold.

I’ve got $750 for it, plus about $150 in actual sales, taking it’s tally up to $900, which ain’t bad for something i’ve built from the ground up in 3 weeks. The ebook itself kicks ass and i expected it to make this sort of amount (when comparing it to ebooks i’ve read in the past that made more).

It cost me nothing to make… the domain cost $6 – that was it. Sitepoint fee’s cost me $40. So the ebook has netted me a net profit of Over $850.

It took about 20 hours to write. 850/20 = $42.50/hr

So fairly impressive stats & who could blame me for looking at giving it another shot with a different angle on things.

My ability to write isn’t in question, thanks mainly to this blog. My writing is always sharp which helps when writing books obviously. Finding things to write about – particularly a mini book – is tricky. I can’t write about things i haven’t done or tried as people won’t buy it. People want first hand experience and to be told exactly how to do things.

So i’ll keep that in mind over the next week and hopefully i’ll be able to create another ebook which can rival my last one in terms of quality and earnings

If i can deliver the goods a second time around, it will prove the first ebook wasn’t just a fluke

http://www.scoby.ie scoby

I bought a copy of your ebook and I do think you can write well. But I also think that you’re selling yourself a bit short by selling the sites as quickly as you do.

For the next ebook why not give the book away free as part of a email course (maybe 3 small pdfs 1 week apart) everyone loves to get good quality stuff for free.

You’ll get your customers on a list and your reputation will be improved because you’re helping people.

This works best if there are certain products or tools you can recommend to help people with the ebook topic.

If you tell them how to improve their site by using keyword research you can recommend keyword elite or wordze
( wordze pays 30% recurring)

If you’re teaching them about wordpress their are a few commercial plugins you could recommend.

If you’re teaching them about selling online make sure that you have an affiliate link for clickbank and paypal

etc.

You get revenue from the affiliate sales.
People are more likely to recommend a free course to their friends and colleagues. If this is successful, write a bigger ebook with more detail, video tutorials and an audio version and charge for that. You’ll already have their trust and people will snap it up.

Tempt them with good quality free content, make it easy to promote and you’ll make a packet.

If you do a paid version of the book you could offer it for free to some customers if they refer a certain amount of people to your list.

Most important thing: get them on a list so that you can sweeten them up with regular content and then promote to them to make loads of money.

That was a bit longer than I intended but definitely worth a go
http://www.smemon.com smemon87

yeah i get what you’re saying

ideally i’d be doing just that – giving away free ebooks and making money thorugh referalls or building a mailing list.

that’s certainly a wiser view to take.

but i need instant. that’s what it boils down to. I don’t have time to hang around waiting on signups and for viral marketing to kick in.

had i kept that last ebook free, i doubt i would have made $900 in under 4 weeks.

so it all comes down to money, and ironically trying to build for the future, even though it seems like i’m being short sighted
http://www.lordbloggit.com Lord Bloggit

I reckon a ‘wordpress is the best’ ebook is the way to go!

You are sold on WP …. so put your thought down in text and you’re sure to create a winning product.

Go through the steps of setting up and monetising a WP powered site and you fly it!

I’ll even review it for you!
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